Invitation of a Feminist Critique of the Process Forum

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I am going to keep this laconically short compared to my normal modus operendi for the sake of opening up debate, but:

It would seem that the Process Forum's structure and function can be criticized severely from Feminist, LGTBQ and Queer Theorist perspectives. I am not going to offer up any extended critiques myself, as the topics and issues are, at the very least, obvious and ostensible.

Before everyone mans their posts with "the sexual preference club cannon" please consider the idea that preference need not exclude reasonable consideration of agency nor does preference entail objectification of one's preference.

The questions to be raised are:

Is gender distinction a legitimate moral foundation for an art, subcultural and fetishistic social website such as this? In other words, is vehement exclusion of all male depictions and topics to a separate category with limited internal demarcation and representation, (arguably "separate but equal but not actually equal"), justifiable? (Consider the category title "Everything Else" which doesn't just pragmatically include obscurer topics but the entirety of male-focused media.) Does the topic of "process of women changing" constitute a morally legitimate foundation for a network of social interactions?

Does the Process Forum actually "celebrate" its subject matter by embracing all variations, expanding boundaries and questioning itself to better improve its ethical treatment of its subject matter, or does it "objectify" its subject matter by establishing rigid categorization and treatment and disallow self-identification that may contest its viewpoint? Does favoritism constitute prejudice? Or does the forum qualify for favoritism as opposed to exclusion and exclusivity? Where does one draw the line between preference and objectification?

What is the functionality "the female form" or "femininity" in the context of this forum? (This question may elucidate answers to previous questions.) How does "female" operate here? What is its dialectical function, if any? Or, if it doesn't have any, is this problematic?

Is this website hetero-normative? If so, on what basis and does that constitute a justifiable foundation for a social media site? How does "transgendered" function within the site? Is it an identity allowed a concept of agency? Or is it objectified: is transgendered functioning as a subconcept of "objectified femininity"---the transformation from male to female being a role enforcement mechanism utilizing the sadomasochistic spectrum?

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Of course, the phrasing of some or most of these questions is not rhetorically neutral because I am trying to simultaneously illustrate the points of contention while inviting polarized debate. I personally believe that the site's structure as a whole is problematic, and I am not attempting to veil this feeling with neutral discourse. I am, however, posing these criticisms as questions because I would rather take a step back and allow the site itself to have an introspective debate than present my views as some form of "force-fed aggressive enlightenment pomposity".